Hej hej. The Fresh Aspect on the road.
Sights and colours from Stockholm and from the island of Gotland.
Check it.

The medieval town of Visby on Gotland

Viking picture stones in Bro

Shaked and ready to bake in the sun. Roof is on and sheds water like a charm. Solid rain Saturday night, and the shed held up, tight like a drum...well, a drum without a door or windows yet. Otherwise, pretty dam tight. Windows and door to follow, at which point it'll be a quaint little out building.


Little Brown Dog ran hard this weekend and took advantage of the warm temps Saturday afternoon. Solid fella.


Calling for a frosting out there tonight...no big surprise in these parts at this time of year. Nance bustled around the garden this weekend, hacking and chopping and cleaning up the garden before we head off for Sverige. We've been snacking on tomatoes, but as you can see here, there are a bundle that are still green and will have to do their ripening in a box. Now excepting ideas for green tomato recipes.


Anyways, being the first weekend at home in something like four weeks, it was nice to actually get something done around here. No lying though, the rivers did beckon and there may have actually been a bit of a small swell this evening after all. At rate, plenty of time for chrome and glide this fall.
Hope everyone has a great week.

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e


photos By: Eric Berglund

photo By: e

Cold mornings, shorter days. One more row of cedar shakes to go for the shed roof. Some early fall steel and maybe some salmon if we start getting some rain in these parts. And ya, haven't surfed in well over a month..but the upshots' that the season should start any time now. Off to Sweden in a handful of days. Woot.

Colour change




photo By: Eric Berglund

Every year, the summer comes to a close at the Berglund Viking Classic in the northwoods of Minnesota . Hot and muggy Labor Day weekend for 2008.

Sun sets over Foley


White pines left from the teeth of a saw to live another day


LED light+darkness+camera+model=light dance


Boykin-ville- Stella shows Lutsen a thing or two about retrieving



photogs by Eric Berglund

On the move these days and spending more time with people, then getting virtual. Just back from a superduper fisheries conference in Ottawa though. Once again, thankful for living in tbay....i mean, that part of the country is so thick with culture and history, tons of bikes, and tons of good beer, and some really friendly folks; but also has a few too many people and a few too many cars and a whole lot of pavement.

Nance wasn't kidding when she said she was gonna get serious and put up a few rows of cedar shakes on the shed roof. Awsomeness.




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photo's by: e

Sun, sun and more sun. Hot week in the Bay. No waves to be had, other than those coming from the northwest and slammin under the boat as we worked on an inland lake this week. Threw down on some rock with Andrew and Nance on wednesday, otherwise keeping cool with some swims. Off to the nations capital tomorrow. out.

Andrew placing some pro.



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photog by e.

THE SECRET SPOT GOES OFF!!!
Let's just say that the stupidity continued all through the weekend and is still going on out there. Unfortunately i'm not talking about a local break...no...a local patch. Of course the berries are everywhere, not just at our "secret spot"...seek and yee shall find. Devoted the better part of the weekend to stalking the freezer with fresh picked blueberries. I'm no expert, but i reckon you'd call this a bumper crop. The hero shot showing our total haul is still to come, but right now we are sitting pretty at well over 20 litres. Leaving the secret spot on sunday afternoon was hard and almost felt wrong; like turning your back on good waves or a river full of fresh chrome, but alas we had to call er quits, dog had had his fill of blueberries and was calling for real dog food and the sun was beating down and causing the bugs to swarm en mass. So much goodness.





photogs By: Eric Berglund

Harvesting the bounty of the woods. After spending a relaxing weekender out in the Lake of the Woods area an seeing that the blueberries were coming along nicely, Nance and i were nearly giddy with anticipation of what our.."secret spot" might have in store for us this year. Jetted out after dinner last night and to our delight, scored a solid 6 litres in just under 2 hours. Painless picking and a reckless display of gorging on blue fruit. Would have cooked it back out tonight, but thunder showers and a dinner invite left those juicy jumbos to grow another day. 20 litres should provide Nance and i with enough blues to sprinkle a couple of spoonfulls on our cereal every morning for a year....shweet!



Another fine GL's specimen.
Gearing for fall steel and an onslaught of salmonids.



photo's By: eric berglund

Out of the ole loop-d-loop the last while. Out in the bush counting some fish, busy as heck this past weekend with my folks out here in TBay helping build a garden shed/ small shaping bay, and ya know, just rolling with summer.

Sleepy G. the other night


The summer issue of SBC Surf is out and a deadly read to-boot. Paged through it several times now, still having to read a few more of the articles and look at the photos another several hundred times. All of the content is top-notch, but i specially dug the article by Malcolm Johnson..."To Get to The Beach.." and Jeff Martins piece..."The Meatball's Big Party". Fantastico guys. Go get your copy today.



ps..Jeff Martin has some ridiculously rad writing over at his blog...Tarp City Gypsies...check it.

photos by Eric Berglund (obviously the mag shots are photo's of photos...not e's photos)

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e